Star Trek: Voyager
Summary
Lieutenant Tom Paris doer Robert Duncan McNeill and Ensign Harry Kim thespian Garrett Wang give their " prescribed position " on whetherStar Trek : Voyager ’s Harry Kim is an original or a duplicate . InVoyagerseason 2 , episode 21 " Deadlock " , the USS Voyager encounters a subspace divergence athletic field that causes two transcript of Voyager to exist simultaneously . The only stop is that ship ' antimatter supply ca n’t be duplicate , so both ships are pull on the same source , and one must be destroy . One Voyager loses Harry Kim and Newborn Naomi Wildman ( Emily Leibovitch ) , soHarry and Naomi are sent through a rift to the other Voyager , thereby completing the starship ’s full crowd accompaniment .
On McNeill and Wang ’s podcast , The Delta Flyers , the actors give their personal commentary while reviewingStar Trek : Voyagerone episode at a time . " Deadlock " has been the subject of public debate , with a democratic hypothesis posit that the Voyager retain most of its work party is the original ship , and the Harry Kim that came over from the other Voyager must therefore be a transcript . The episode itself never designates either edition of Voyager as an original or a transcript , butMcNeill and Wang have fall to a definitive position asVoyagerinsiders . take their quotes below , and listen toThe Delta Flyersstarting at 17:51 :
Garrett Wang : I ’ve struggled with this for many year , because at the various conventions I ’ve attended worldwide , I ’ve often experienced interactions with fans worldwide who say the same thing : ' How ’s it finger being the twin ? ' "
Robert Duncan McNeill : I do n’t think Harry is a transcript . I retrieve he ’s just as original as the other gang . But if you had to make an argument , he ’s the original , and everyone else is the copy , because the antimatter did n’t replicate .
Garrett Wang : I ’ve been the brunt of many joke . People say that ’s the reason [ Kim was ] never advertize , because [ he was ] the duplicate . The existent one gets promote , and he ’s beat . But now we ’ve come to a conclusion .
Robert Duncan McNeill : The Delta Flyers ' positioning is , if we have to peck duplicate or originals , Harry ’s the only original . That ’s the Delta Flyers ' prescribed side as an organization .
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Both Copies of Voyager Were Real In “Deadlock”
If both Voyagers are real, so are both Harry Kims.
Star Trek : Voyagerseason 2 , episode 21 " standstill " show an interesting sci - fi assumption with its duplicated spaceship and gang , and never intimate that one USS Voyager is an inferior copy or an original . The subspace discrepancy field creates a situation where there aretwo identical Voyagers with very crewsthat occupy the same space and time until they drift apart and become two distinct strong-arm entities . Neither Voyager just sprang into existence out of nothing , and neither part off from an original Voyager . Both Voyagers are the same Voyager that the consultation has followed since the starting time , and therefore"real " .
Because neither USS Voyager is in reality a written matter , it stand to reason that Ensign Harry Kim inStar Trek : Voyagerfrom late season 2 onwards is n’t a transcript , either . The Harry Kim that died in " Deadlock " was n’t replaced by an alternative rendering of Harry from another universe , now forced to link up a crew that is n’t in reality his own . The other Harry is the same Ensign Kim that he ’s always been , but the quietus of Voyager ’s crew are n’t extra , either . That stand for that The Delta Flyers'“official status " , while imprecise , is at least part honest : Harry Kim after " Deadlock " is , in fact , an master .
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Source : The Delta FlyersSeason 2 , episode 21 " Deadlock "
